Tarabulus Governorate

[1] It contained the city of Tripoli, which was also its administrative capital.

[2] Tarabulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, and was sometimes applied to the entire Tripolitania province.

The governorate's population was 379,925 in 1964 and had risen to 544,842 by 1972.

[3] Although Tarabulus Governorate constituted less than 1% of the land area in Libya, more than 25% of the population lived there, with a density about five times greater than the mean of the other governorates.

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